LONDON Oil company BP said Monday it is selling some deep-water assets in the Gulf of Mexico to Plains Exploration & Production Co. for $5.55billion, a big step in the BP's drive to cover the cost of its oil well blowout in the Gulf two years ago and concentrate investment elsewhere.

It's been 11 starts and nearly two months since Greg Maddux won a game. Jorge Cantu hit a two-run homer off the 42-year-old Maddux, which was enough to carry Ricky Nolasco and the Florida Marlins to a 3-1 victory over the San Diego Padres on Monday night.

Dwight White, the Steel Curtain defensive end known as "Mad Dog" who helped lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl-winning seasons in the 1970s, has died following surgery at a Pittsburgh hospital. He was 58.

Howard Stern. WFAN in New York's Mike and the Mad Dog team of Mike Francesa and Chris "Mad Dog" Russo. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman? t a studio above the NHL Store in Manhattan last Thursday, the commissioner strolls in one minute before air time for his weekly NHL Hour show on XM Satellite Radio and NHL.com (channel 204, Thursdays, 4-5 p.m. ET).